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Make electronic claims with Services Australia, including Bulk Bill claims, or if your health service operates fully or partially as a private business, bill a patient privately; and balance your banking records.
Fee Schedules
Maintain the default fee schedule for patient services that are not bulk billed or DVA-related, import updated MBS and DVA fee schedules into your instance of Helix, and create customised fee schedules.
Add Private Billing Fees
Add private billing fees to Medicare item numbers and set an effective date.

Finance
Make electronic claims with Services Australia, including Bulk Bill claims, or if your health service operates fully or partially as a private business, bill a patient privately; and balance your banking records.
- Record a Visit
  Create a visit for a patient, add the patient to the patient queue, and initiate the billing process for all types of visits. Alternatively for previous consults, create a visit and bill the patient.
- Patient Claims
  For private billing, transmit patient claims to Medicare so that patients can receive a rebate from Medicare as part of the billing process.
- Medicare Bulk Bill
  For eligible patients, bulk bill the cost of the consult directly to Medicare, using Medicare Australia's online claiming.
- Workers Compensation
  Process Workers' Compensation claims using Helix
- Invoices
  If required, adjust any visit details for a patient's private invoice after it has been issued.
- Receipts
  When payment has been received from an account holder or Services Australia, receipting can be performed for all invoices.
- Transaction History
  View the transaction history for individual patients or account holders, refunds and write-off summaries.
- Banking
  Use the Bank panel to view deposited items and balance your banking records.
- Financial Reports
  Helix provides these reports on the Financial Reports tab.
- Configure Centre Billing
  Add your centre's account details, default billing type, default billing items for different scenarios and your Modified Monach Category for Medicarebilling incentive items.
- Fee Schedules
  Maintain the default fee schedule for patient services that are not bulk billed or DVA-related, import updated MBS and DVA fee schedules into your instance of Helix, and create customised fee schedules.
  - Display Fee Schedules
    The fee schedules available at your health service are listed in the Fee Schedules window.
  - Customise Fee Schedules (Override Schedules)
    Create custom fee schedules (or Override Schedules), if you want to charge different fees per-state, per-practice, or even per-user.
  - Add Fees Manually
    Add new fees manually and create multiple fee rates for all the schedules.
  - Edit Fees
    Update the fee rates for existing fee schedules in Fee Schedules panel.
  - Add Private Billing Fees
    Add private billing fees to Medicare item numbers and set an effective date.
  - Medicare Benefits Schedule Import
    Helix is initially supplied with the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) already loaded. Import updated versions as they become available.

Add Private Billing Fees

Add private billing fees to Medicare item numbers and set an effective date.

Before you begin

Permissions:

Update Fee Schedule

About this task

Add a new fee item and set an effective date in the Edit Fee panel from the Fee Schedules section.

Procedure

To add a new fee item:

Select user > Settings.
Select Billing > Fee Schedules > Medicare Benefits Schedule > Fee Table.
In the Search field, enter the billing code (if you know it) or search with a keyword of the item to which you want to add a private fee. For example, 23, 715, 10987 and Discharge care.
Hover your mouse in the Action column and click Edit. You are redirected to the Edit Fee panel.
In the Edit Fee panel, from the Schedule list, select Default Schedule.
To add a new fee item, click Add rate.
In the Effective Date calendar, select the date from which the new fee is effective.
Enter the fees required at your practice in the respective fields:
- Private
- Pre-Employment
- Workers Compensation
Click Save.

Results

The new rate is available for billing at the effective date.

If the default billing type for your practice is Private, when you add the MBS item for a private visit, the new private fee is applied.
Default private billing - results

Default private billing - results

What to do next

To set a default private billing type for your centre, select User icon

user >

Settings > Centre > Centre Settings > Edit > Billing. For more information, see Configure Default Private Billing Type.

To delete an existing fee item, click Delete.